Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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XII, 39.
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW.
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36. The interest on products of animals, on wool, on the produce of a field, and on beasts of burden (shall) not (increase) more than the fivefold (value of the object lent).
37. The property of (a person who is) neither an idiot nor a minor, having been used by strangers before his eyes for ten years, (belongs) to him who uses it,
38. (But) not (if it is used) by Srotriyas, ascetics, or royal officials.
39. Animals, land, and females are not lost (to the owner) by (another's) possession.
milked, or of (a male) to carry burdens." Kâtyâyana explains the daily interest (lit. the interest resembling the growth of the lock on the head), “That which is taken daily is called daily interest." ... E.g. for a Prastha of grain lent a handful of grain is taken daily.'-Haradatta.
36. Colebrooke I, Digest 62. Haradatta mentions also another explanation of the Satra: 'Another commentator) says, “If products of animals and the rest have been bought, and the price is not paid at once, that may increase fivefold by the addition of interest, but not to a greater sum."
37. Manu VIII, 147-148; Yâgñavalkya II, 24.
38. Haradatta adds that in the case of a Srotriya and of an ascetic, the owner may allow the use of his property for a long time, desiring to acquire merit by doing so, and that fear may prevent him from opposing the king's servants. Hence prolonged possession by such persons does not necessitate the conclusion that the owner had given up his rights. As ascetics cannot possess any property, the Sätra must refer to their occupying an empty house which has an owner.
39. Manu VIII, 149; Yâgñavalkya II, 25. The translation given above agrees with an explanation of the Satra which Haradatta mentions, but rejects. He himself prefers the following:
Animals, i. e. quadrupeds; land, i.e. a field, a garden, and the like; females, i.e. female slaves and the like. No long possession of animals and the rest is necessary in order to acquire the rights of ownership over them. Even after a short period they become the
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